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1969 was a turning year for the Portuguese student movement operating in a dictatorship. The colonial war created mobilization. The French, Italian and German 68 protest movements contributed to politicize the movement first in Lisbon, then in Coimbra, which had been until then more “traditional,” as well as for the Portuguese in exile, notably in Paris. The fall of the dictatorship on April 25, 1974 ushered in a new era, with students becoming involved as actors of change until the “de-ideologization” of the 1980s.